Changelog History
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v3.0.0 Changes
September 09, 2020Note: Gradle 6.5 and the Android Gradle Plugin v4.1.0 are the new minimum requirements. GPP 2.x will not support AGP 4.1 or above.
๐ New features
- ๐ Better compatibility with the
maven-publish
plugin. If present, GPP will now add its dependencies to thepublish
task. - Proxy authentication courtesy of @wintermute766.
๐ Bug fixes
- ๐ Fixed a critical issue where
playConfigs
would sometimes inadvertently overwrite each other.
๐ฅ Breaking changes
- ๐ All properties now use the Gradle Property API. Upgrade steps: change
foo = blah
tofoo.set(blah)
. For more guidance, see the updated docs. - ๐ The
outputProcessor
property has been removed. The same functionality can now be achieved using native AGP APIs. - ๐ Support for PKCS12 credentials (aka
.p12
files) has been removed along with theserviceAccountEmail
property. Use JSON credentials instead. - ๐ Deprecated task names have been removed.
- ๐
promo-graphics
are no longer supported in the Publishing API and have been removed.
Behavior changes
Promote task
The promote task now handles its different configuration options more simply. Promotion needs a from track and a promote track. If the
fromTrack
isn't specified explicitly, the least stable release track will be used. If thepromoteTrack
isn't specified explicitly, it will be assumed that you want to do an in-place update so the resolvedfromTrack
will be used. Previously, thetrack
property was involved in the computation of both other properties. - ๐ Better compatibility with the
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v2.8.1
September 30, 2020 -
v2.8.0 Changes
June 09, 2020- Support for authenticating GPP with an environment variable! See the docs.
- ๐ Support for in-app update priority.
- ๐ Fixed an incompatibility with Gradle 6.5.
- ๐ Fixed a crash publishing releases to a new track.
- โ Removed unnecessary warnings.
๐ > PS: this release uses a new publishing mechanism, so in theory you can use any of our modules directly (though this isn't officially supported).
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v2.7.5 Changes
April 05, 2020- ๐ Fixed a compatibility issue with Gradle 6.3.
- ๐ Fixed a bug causing local release notes to be picked from the
promoteTrack
instead of thefromTrack
.
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v2.7.4 Changes
April 05, 2020๐ No artifacts were published, please ignore this release.
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v2.7.3 Changes
March 25, 2020๐ This release fixes a few key bugs:
- Bootstrapping images started failing across various GPP versions due to an API change.
- Using a product flavor named
play
would fail. - GPP would crash on a non-existent mapping file.
In addition, partial compatibility with AGP 4.1.x is now available.
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v2.7.2 Changes
February 26, 2020๐ This release makes incompatibility errors with the Android Gradle Plugin clearer.
Note: the minimum AGP version was bumped from
3.6.0-rc03
to3.6.0
now that 3.6 stable has shipped. -
v2.7.1 Changes
February 22, 2020๐ This release fixes a dependency resolution issue caused by googleapis/google-api-java-client#1487.
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v2.7.0 Changes
February 22, 2020๐ This release is focused on fixing long-standing bugs and minor feature requests.
Note: GPP v2.7 requires at least Gradle 6.2 and the Android Gradle Plugin 3.6.0. While waiting for AGP to hit the stable channel, you may use
v3.6.0-rc03
.๐ Improvements
- ๐ Support for top-level graphics is now available. This means that you can put your app's icon (for example) in
graphics/icon.png
instead ofgraphics/icon/1.png
. - ๐ If no local release notes are found, existing release notes from the Play Console will be carried over when publishing your APK or App Bundle.
- You can now upload and/or install debuggable internal sharing artifacts.
- ๐ A warning is now logged if your
playConfigs
contain an unrecognized variant, product flavor, or build type.
๐ Bug fixes
- ๐ CLI params now always override your build script configuration instead of failing if you had
playConfigs
. - ๐ CLI params on lifecycle tasks (such as
promoteArtifact
instead ofpromoteReleaseArtifact
) now propage down to their respective implementation tasks correctly. - ๐ง The
--artifact-dir
CLI param is now correctly respected in eagerly configured Gradle projects.
๐ Deprecations
- ๐ The
--track
CLI param on promotion tasks has been removed as it led to confusing bugs and unpredictable behavior. Use--promote-track
instead.
- ๐ Support for top-level graphics is now available. This means that you can put your app's icon (for example) in
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v2.6.2 Changes
December 28, 2019- ๐ Fixed incompatibilities with Gradle 6.1 and AGP 4.0
- ๐ Improved error message formatting